> Most techies would've scoffed at the MacBook Air, if it were described to them with specs Those "techies" probably couldn't use an Air anyway - not like you'

> Most techies would've scoffed at the MacBook Air, if it were described to them with specs Those "techies" probably couldn't use an Air anyway - not like you're going to be walking around your windowless server room too often, and you certainly wouldn't want to take work home with you. And macs can't even run Exchange Administrator! Most programmers I know, however, were delighted. Raw specs have never been a good measure of a machine's usefulness, but the size and weight you can take straight to the bank. The air is a lifestyle computer at a time where a lot of programmers are beginning to think more about their lifestyle and realise it's cool to go outside and actually walk around and stuff. Maybe half the (web) programmers I know have them now. Specs! I guess you can't ignore them, but in my experience the more people go on about "specs" the less productive use they turn out putting all those gigahertz to. In normal use the computer will spend 99.99% of its time waiting for the stupid slow user, and I never seem to need to compile Gentoo or compress bluray movies in a big hurry all that often. What I do like to do is put my air in my coat pocket and walk down to the café and do some work, and if your overclocked oil-cooled 12-core neon-lit Extreme Edition alien-head-logo-having AC-powered Gigantibox can't do that then it is basically a piece of useless junk to me. Good for games though, gotta say.